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Arkin Lab - Michelle A

Michelle Arkin, PhD, Executive Director

Thomas William and Frederick John MacWilliam Distinguished Professor

Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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chemical biology, protein-protein interactions, screening, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, neglected diseases

SMDC_Charles Hart

Charles Hart, PhD, Director 

Executive Director, Catalyst Program

Adjunct Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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pharmacology, molecular and cell biology, drug discovery and development, human genetics, cancer

Jeff Neitz, PhD, Associate Director, Chemistry 

Adjunct Professor, Chemistry

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synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, neurodegenerative disease, cancer

Amanda P

Amanda Paulson, PhD

Specialist, Informatics

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cheminformatics, data science, machine learning for drug discovery, high throughput screening

Jez

Jezrael Lafuente Revalde, PhD

Specialist

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high-throughput screening, cell-based assay development, drug liver-induced injury, early stage drug discovery
SmdC Qinghui Wang

Qinghui Wang, PhD 

Specialist 

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chemical biology, high-throughput screening, medicinal chemistry, cancer, inflammasome

Arkin lab - Zain

Zain Alam

Jr. Specialist

BS in biochemistry

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drug discovery, high-throughput screening, assay development, cancer, chemical biology
SMDC Suvankar

Suvankar Bera, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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Multistep Organic Synthesis, Organometallic & Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design,

Discovery of highly selective small molecule inhibitor for PARP1 over PARP2 in cancer therapy.

Arkin lab- Deepthi R

Deepthi Ramesh, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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Medicinal chemistry, Synthetic chemistry, Drug design, Cancer, Virology

Ninwe Maraha, PhD
Laboratory Manager
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Kazuko Olson
Administrative Officer
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May H. Abdelaziz, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX

Yassir Younis Adam, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar MyoKardia
Kenny Ang, PhD Specialist  
Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Yuliya Birman Graduate Student Research Associate, Biodesy

Brian Blank, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

ORIC Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco

Clifford Bryant, MS Specialist  

Stacie Bulfer, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Senior Scientist, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Lawrence, KS

Mark Burlingame, PhD

Specialist

UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility

Paul Burroughs Staff Research Associate  
Sheng Chen, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar  
Steven Chen Specialist GE

Jonathan Choy, PhD

Graduate Student

Sr. Scientist, Merck, South San Francisco, CA

Julia Davies Senior Scientist  
Shubhankar Dutta, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar  

Yao Fan, PhD

Specialist

Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim

Shaun Fontaine, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Scientist, ProLynx LLC, San Francisco

Allejandra Gallardo-Godoy, PhD

Specialist

Senior Researcher, University of Queensland

Ken Hallenbeck Graduate Student Senior Scientific Researcher, Genentech

Brian Hearn, PhD

Specialist

Associate Director, ProLynx LLC, San Francisco

Frantz Jean-Francois, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Scientist II, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD

Auke Koops Graduate Student Intern  

Erica Lauterwasser, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Scientist, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Sumit Mahajan, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Director, Drug Development, Globavir Biosciences, Los Altos, CA

Sarine Markossian, PhD Specialist  
Daniel Medina-Cleghorn, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Scientist, Nurix Therapeutics

Connie Merron

Specialist

Informatics Specialist, Recombinant Antibody Network, UCSF

Joseph Mulvaney Specialist

Senior Software Engineer, Schrödinger, New York, NY

Maxime van den Oetelaar Visitor Graduate Eindhoven University of Technology
Angela Reese Associate Specialist  
Annet Saris Graduate Student Intern  
Takeshi Shida, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar  

Hiroki Shimizu PhD

Visiting Scientist

Research Scientist, Daichi Sankyo, Japan

Ben Spangler, PhD

Graduate Student

Postdoc, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research (NIBR) Emeryville, CA

Poulami Talukder, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Scientist, Tiba Biotech LLC, Cambridge, MA

Yinyan Tang, PhD

Specialist

Scientist, Nektar Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA

David Turner, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Scientist, Leidos, Frederick, MD

Kurt Van Horn, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research Scientist, Cambrex

Punitha Vedantham, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Organic / Medicinal Chemistry Specialist Vibrant Sciences, Burlingame, CA

Chris Wilson, PhD Associate Director  
Mengqi Zhong, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Scientist, REVOLUTION Medicines